The results aren't bruising, just numbing
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08/27/09
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
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Reviews Counted:161
Fresh:83
Rotten:78
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Despite a great cast, the characters in Margot at the Wedding are too unlikable to enthrall viewers.
Theatrical Release:29-02-2008
Synopsis: Writer-director Noah Baumbach follows up his Oscar-nominated THE SQUID AND THE WHALE with another bitingly funny and painfully honest dissection of family life. This time around, the topic is... [More]
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, Ciaran Hinds
Director: Noah Baumbach
Reviews for Margot at the Wedding
Noah Baumbach’s entry into the dysfunctional-family sweepstakes is a successfully depressing affair that has some genuine laughs to maintain interest while the fake relationships that dominate every scene leave the viewer as estranged as the char
07/23/09
The raw, real centerpiece is the relationship between Kidman and Leigh, whose performances drive the film.
12/27/08
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10/18/08
No one does bad parent movies better than Noah Baumbach.
09/08/08
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08/07/08
a dysfunctional family portrait that, at best, shows how far sisterly bonds can stretch without breaking. At worst, it demonstrates what happens when a writer with nothing to say continues to produce after his supply of bio fuel is exhausted
03/17/08
Noah Baumbach is the king of dysfunction. We constantly see films about war, love, aliens, so why no films about how insanely uncomfortable family can be with one another?
03/04/08
... after submerging the viewer in a hotbed of emotional insecurity and self-loathing for an hour and a half, it offers no real hope or movement beyond what it started out as.
02/22/08
I really didn't like it at all. Catch it on HBO so you can see it uncensored if you want to see some acting outside a script and director's ability to render it unpalatable.
02/16/08
It's a fine script that is beautifully realised by its top cast, although emotionally it falls short; I never felt anything for Margot.
02/14/08
the one thing missing is a plot - and this time Baumbach's characters and their go-nowhere problems are just not engaging enough to carry us through an hour and a half of grating domestic narcissism.
02/07/08
Noah Baumbach stumbles in his first film since the intriguing The Squid and the Whale. The performances are outlandish and the story is all over the place.
02/02/08
Ms. Kidman, who can liven up a reading of the phone book, doesn't quite bring enough icing for the cake to make her visit, and this film, particularly noteworthy.
01/19/08
A collection of drab snobs being mean to each other for no very good reason except that they're, well, mean-spirited.
01/09/08
In this day and age, its stripped down incisiveness is nearly unfathomable.
01/08/08
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September 13, 2007:
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